Mr Charles Wesson, a butcher in Bayswater, London, signs a petition urging the return of nation's meat buying to private traders, for Mrs Brenda Borrett, today (Friday). On counter is 8 pence worth of carcase meat - current weekly ration for a single person. Mrs Borrett is one of a group representing the National Federation of Housewives Associations, currently seeking 600,000 signatures to their petition demanding the government cease bulk purchase of meat. [Post-war, rationing, shopping, shops] 16 February 1951